11/26/2025
Here are the 2025 Varsity Defensive stats!
For about the 2nd time i've seen in the modern NS Football era (2000 onwards,) we finished with 2 players with over 100 tackles! Previous time was ironically 2004, last time we won a playoff game.
Cabrera ends his 3 year run on Varsity with a bang. Lead team in tackles in 24 and 25, also tied or lead in several other big categories across the board, a dominant defensive season if I've seen one. But, he's not that kind of fellow, a huge team player and he boosted everyone else up.
Combs is one of my favorite stories, he had to wait a year after the 2024 seniors and he got spot duty last year, but he made it count then (saved us vs West Wilkes in that OT game multiple times.) This year he stepped it up 3 notches and became dominant. Very rarely did he not contribute, and if he did have an off week he came back with a vengeance the next. Makes me so happy to see him break on through. That being said.. he finished with over 100 tackles and got Honorable Mention at Linebacker? Give me a break!
Ravitt on the D line stepped into nose guard having to follow Big Kearse but he did it as well as he could and then some, he passed him in tackles and had some great outings along the way. He dominated Patrick County all night and ate up West Stokes and Salisbury plus Central too. Three killer years in row for nose guards.
Cain was honestly the quiet story of the season. He got hurt his sophomore and junior year with his knee and there were people doubting he'd make it through but besides one game where he got a concussion, he dominated in the secondary for us. He had 2 picks against West Stokes and played very consistent in the 2nd half of the year. If he didn't miss the Central game he coulda gotten to maybe 100 too. He's a motor and was all over the place.
The crazy part? This was such a great team defense that we have several other guys who played greatly this year. Jenkins had a suprise year in the secondary and will be our Junior with the most tackles. Mosley was great for us on the D line, so was Dunbar. He had a quietly productive year and finished near the top in sacks. Turney came out of nowhere to be one of the hidden aces of this unit, he played great almost every week in conference.Hodges and Ho**er grew a lot and become solid in conference play, we get both of them back on the DL next year. Chamberlain started for the first time vs East Surry and while experienced he held his own. So many gamers on this side of the ball. I wish we had them one more year.
I called it 2 years ago "this team's gonna be fun in 2 years," take MA and Maiden's scores off the #'s and this team only gave up 14 points, very solid! Still solid despite that, just 2 games giving up over 28 points.
I'll miss these fellas next year, but they leave the defense in good hands with the juniors coming up and JV fellas, they are gonna have high expectations!